AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
THE YIELD OF GRAIN. (Feou Our Own- Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, June 7.
The actual yields per acre of wheat, oats, j fend barley for the colony for 1904-1905,_wdth the estimated yields appended in parentheses, are as follow:—Wheat, 35.36 bushels per acre (27); oats, 42.55 (32); barley, 38.26 (30). The estimates have been considerably ' exceeded. In total yields, wheat shows an increase over the preceding year of 1,232,000 oats a decrease of of 554,000 bushels, barley a decrease of 32,000 bushels. The average yield per acre in bushels and the total yield in bushels for 1903-1904 and ' 1904-1905 are: —
• The following decreases have occurred in the total yields, comparing 1904-5 with 1903-4:—Maize, from 530,291 bushels to 490,405; potatoes, from 208,787 tons to 134,608 lons. The following increases, comparing the j Eame two years, have occurred:—Bye, I 19,992 bushels to 31,612; peas, 311,412 to 378,195; beans, 78,421 to 89,964; rye- ; grass, 658,280 to 758,387; cocksfoot, I 5,228,5721b to 8,890,7751b. As to wheat, it is estimated that on th© SBth of February last there was available for all purposes 10.226,600 busheJs. The estimated quantity required for seed (say, 250,000 acres at two bushels per acre) was 500,000 bushels; estimated consumption of 830,000 uersons, at six bushels per bead, from let March, 1905, to 28th February, 1906, 5,580,000 bushels; leaving an apparent eurplus of 4,146,000 bushels. The wheat harvest this year is bigger in total than any Cinoe -1895, except 1898-99, which ran to 13,073,4J6 bushels. The, yield per acre is]
larger than any in* th© same period 6a ve that in 1902-3— 38. 37 "bushels.
Wieat, 1903-4 1904-5 rats, 3903-4 1904-5 larley, 1903-4 1904-5 Acres. .. 230,346 .. 258,015 ... 391,640 .. 342,189 .. 34,681 .. 29,484 per Acre. Bushels. \ 34.26 7,891,654 '■ 35.36 9,123,673 1 38.57 15,107,237 42.53 14,553,611 33.46 1,160,504 38.26 1,128,164
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